What containers has Cactus been tested on?

Cactus is supposed to work on any J2EE 1.2 and 1.3 compliant servers. However, we have found in the past that some containers were displaying some weird behaviours. Hence this page...

If you have tested Cactus on a configuration that is not listed below, please send an email to the Cactus user mailing list with [TestedOn] in the subject.

Cactus 1.5

Server Versions J2EE APIs Note
Resin 2.1.4, 2.1.6, 2.1.8, 2.1.9, 2.1.10 1.2, 1.3
Tomcat 3.3.1, 3.3.1a 1.2
Tomcat 4.0.6, 4.1.18, 4.1.24, 4.1.27 1.2, 1.3
Tomcat 5.0.2-alpha, 5.0.3-alpha 5.0.12 1.2, 1.3 With Tomcat 5.0.3-alpha, one test from the Cactus test suite is failing: testGetRequestDispatcherFromNamedDispatcherOK.
JBoss/Jetty 3.0.7, 3.2.0, 3.2.1 1.3
JBoss/Tomcat 3.2.1 1.3
Orion 1.6.0b, 2.0.1, 2.0.2 1.2, 1.3 Make sure you put the tools.jar corresponding to the JDK you are using in ORION_HOME (i.e the place where you installed Orion).
Weblogic 7.0 SP2, 7.0 SP4 1.2, 1.3

Cactus 1.4

Server Versions J2EE APIs Note
Resin 2.1.4 1.3
Resin 2.1.0, 2.1.2 1.2, 1.3
Tomcat 3.2.4 1.2
Tomcat 4.0.4 1.2, 1.3
Tomcat 3.3.1 1.2
Tomcat 4.1.7 beta 1.3 A NullPointerException is raised when stopping Tomcat.
Tomcat 4.1.9 beta 1.3
Orion 1.5.4, 1.6.0 1.2, 1.3
WebLogic 6.1 SP3, 7.0 1.2, 1.3
Enhydra 3.3.1 b1 1.2 Enhydra does not seem to support BASIC authentication as defined by the Servlet specifications and thus the Sample tests which use security fail. All other tests run fine and thus if you don't need to test secure code, you should be fine with Enhydra 3.3.1 b1.

Cactus 1.3

Server Versions J2EE APIs Note
Resin 2.0.5, 2.1.0 1.2, 1.3
Tomcat 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3 1.2, 1.3
Tomcat 3.3.1 1.2
Tomcat 3.2.4 1.2
WebLogic 6.1 1.2, 1.3
Orion 1.5.2, 1.5.4 1.2, 1.3
Enhydra 3.3.1 b1 1.2 Enhydra does not seem to support BASIC authentication as defined by the Servlet specifications and thus the Sample tests which use security fail. All other tests run fine and thus if you don't need to test secure code, you should be fine with Enhydra 3.3.1 b1.